Robert Rickover

Body Learning: The Alexander Technique

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A podcast devoted to all aspects of the Alexander Technique, a method of learning how to release harmful tension and perform all your activities with greater ease and freedom.

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Robert Rickover

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Health

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BodyLearningCast.com

Latest episode

May 2, 2026

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Episodes

An Alexander Technique Student's Experience with Constructive Rest - Part 2 23.04.2025

Send us Fan Mail Celese Ditter, an Alexander Technique student and middle school music teacher in Columbus, Nebraska talks with Robert Rickover about the ways in which Constructive has helped her and her students.  Celeste is also the star of the No Cost Alexander Technique Lesson Project: AlexanderTechnique.com/free   Robert's website: AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com  More information about C...

No Cost Alexander Technique Lessons - Check in after 6 Months 20.04.2025

Send us Fan Mail More information about the Alexander Technique: AlexanderTechnique.com Resources for Alexander Technique self study: A lexanderTechnique.com/selfstudy Alexander Technique Podcast: B odyLearningCast.com Alexander Technique Blog: B odyLearningBlog.com All No Cost Alexander Technique Lessons: Introduction: youtube.com/watch?v=NrwHz4NgzSI Lesson 1 - part 1: https://www.youtube.com/wat...

How the Alexander Technique differs from other techniques 23.12.2024

Send us Fan Mail Information about the No Cost Alexander Technique Lesson Project: https://alexandertechnique.com/free More information about the Alexander Technique: https://alexandertechnique.com Resources for Alexander Technique self study: https://alexandertechnique.com/selfstudy Alexander Technique Podcast: https://bodylearningcast.com Alexander Technique Blog:  https:bodylearningblog.com Int...

Speaking and the power of the Pause 19.12.2024

Send us Fan Mail Information about the No Cost Alexander Technique Lesson Project: https://alexandertechnique.com/free More information about the Alexander Technique: https://alexandertechnique.com Resources for Alexander Technique self study: https://alexandertechnique.com/selfstudy Alexander Technique Podcast: https://bodylearningcast.com Alexander Technique Blog:  https:bodylearningblog.com Int...

A Powerful Alexander Technique Mind Bender 14.12.2024

Send us Fan Mail Information about the No Cost Alexander Technique Lesson Project: https://alexandertechnique.com/free More information about the Alexander Technique: https://alexandertechnique.com Resources for Alexander Technique self study: https://alexandertechnique.com/selfstudy Alexander Technique Podcast: https://bodylearningcast.com Alexander Technique Blog:  https:bodylearningblog.com Int...

No Cost Alexander Technique Lesson Project 23.11.2024

Send us Fan Mail Information about the No Cost Alexander Technique Lesson Project: https://alexandertechnique.com/free More information about the Alexander Technique: https://alexandertechnique.com Resources for Alexander Technique self study: https://alexandertechnique.com/selfstudy Alexander Technique Podcast: https://bodylearningcast.com Alexander Technique Blog:  https:bodylearningblog.com Int...

Trauma and Chronic Stress - How the Alexander Technique can Help 28.09.2024

Send us Fan Mail Robert Rickover, an Alexander Technique teacher in Omaha, Nebraska, talks with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware about her work with people suffering from trauma and chronic stress. Imogen's website: ImogenRagone.com Robert's website: AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com Alexander Technique Teachers of Greater Philadelphia website: AlexTechG...

Neuroscience and the Alexander Technique 02.09.2024

Send us Fan Mail Robert Rickover, an Alexander Technique teacher in Omaha, Nebraska, interviews Tim Cacciatore, Phd, an Alexander Technique teacher and neuroscientist living in England, about what neuroscience can say about the effective use of Alexander Technique directions.  Robert's website: AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com More information about Tim's work, and online classes, can be f...

Short Alexander Technique Description 28.06.2024

Send us Fan Mail Predrag Vlatkovic, Editorial Coordinator of MysticMag, interviews Robert Rickover, an Alexander Technique teacher in Omaha, Nebraska, about the Technique for the MysticMag Blog. MysticMag website: MysticMag.com Robert's website:  AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com More information about the Technique: AlexanderTechnique.com Short article based on this video: mysticmag.com/psychic...

Why do we need to use Alexander Technique Self-Directions to Improve our Functioning? 13.06.2024

Send us Fan Mail Imogen Ragone and Robert Rickover discuss this question and provide some possible explanations. Imogen's website: ImogenRagone.com Robert teaches in Omaha, Nebraska. Website: AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com More information about Constructive Rest: AlexanderTechnique.com/ConstructiveRest More information about the Alexander Technique: AlexanderTechnique.com

A Simple Alexander Technique Self-Direction That Can Change Your Life - Part 2 13.06.2024

Send us Fan Mail nRobert Rickover and Imogen Ragone return to an earlier discussion about an Alexander Technique self-direction in order to address a question about it's usefulness when you want to let your mind be free. Imogen teaches in Wilmington, Delaware. Imogen's website: ImogenRagone.com Robert teaches in Omaha, Nebraska. Website: AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com You can learn more...

A Useful Alexander Technique Constructive Rest Ad-On 12.06.2024

Send us Fan Mail Alexander Technique Constructive Rest is a useful process that anybody can use, as it requires no special training or skill. Robert Rickover and Imogen Ragone discuss a simple ad-on that can help you improve the coordination between your legs. Imogen teaches in Wilmington, Delaware. Imogen's website: ImogenRagone.com Robert teaches in Omaha, Nebraska. Website: AlexanderTechni...

A simple Alexander Technique self-direction that can change your life 25.01.2024

Send us Fan Mail Robert Rickover and Imogen Ragone discuss a simple and powerful new Alexander Technique self-direction with far-reaching implications for all facets of your life. Imogen teaches in Wilmington, Delaware. Imogen's website: ImogenRagone.com Robert teaches in Omaha, Nebraska. Website: AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com You can learn more about Alexander Technique directions in genera...

A Little Bit of Nothing 10.11.2023

Send us Fan Mail Marjorie Barstow would often say, at the end of one of her four week long Alexander Technique workshops: When you get home, and people ask you what you learned in Nebraska, don't tell them 'a little bit of nothing.' In this conversation, Imogen Ragone and Robert Rickover discuss the implications of this admonition from several different points of view. Imogen teache...

Newly available documents about Alexander Technique developments from the 1940s - 1980s: Part 6 24.07.2023

Send us Fan Mail Amanda Cole, an Australian academic researcher, writer and performer, is the author of "Marjorie Barstow and the Alexander Technique - Critical Thinking in Performing Arts Pedagogy." She is also a long time student of both the classic and Barstow-inspired versions of the Technique.  She draws on multiple sources, including a significant collection of written corresponden...

Newly available documents about Alexander Technique developments from the 1940s - 1980s: Part 1 24.07.2023

Send us Fan Mail Amanda Cole, an Australian academic researcher, writer and performer, is the author of "Marjorie Barstow and the Alexander Technique - Critical Thinking in Performing Arts Pedagogy." She is also a long time student of both the classic and Barstow-inspired versions of the Technique. She draws on multiple sources, including a significant collection of written correspondenc...

Newly available documents about Alexander Technique developments from the 1940s - 1980s: Part 2 24.07.2023

Send us Fan Mail Amanda Cole, an Australian academic researcher, writer and performer, is the author of "Marjorie Barstow and the Alexander Technique - Critical Thinking in Performing Arts Pedagogy." She is also a long time student of both the classic and Barstow-inspired versions of the Technique. She draws on multiple sources, including a significant collection of written correspondenc...

Newly available documents about Alexander Technique developments from the 1940s - 1980s: Part 3 24.07.2023

Send us Fan Mail Amanda Cole, an Australian academic researcher, writer and performer, is the author of "Marjorie Barstow and the Alexander Technique - Critical Thinking in Performing Arts Pedagogy." She is also a long time student of both the classic and Barstow-inspired versions of the Technique. She draws on multiple sources, including a significant collection of written correspondenc...

Newly available documents about Alexander Technique developments from the 1940s - 1980s: Part 4 24.07.2023

Send us Fan Mail Robert Rickover continues his discussion with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware, about F. Mathias Alexander's use of the term "psycho-physical." An earlier conversation was about why he used that phrase, and some of the implications of the meaning he assigns to it, and can be seen here: https://youtu.be/b9NxHqCLuX8 In this video,...

Newly available documents about Alexander Technique developments from the 1940s - 1980s: Part 5 24.07.2023

Send us Fan Mail Amanda Cole, an Australian academic researcher, writer and performer, is the author of "Marjorie Barstow and the Alexander Technique - Critical Thinking in Performing Arts Pedagogy." She is also a long time student of both the classic and Barstow-inspired versions of the Technique. She draws on multiple sources, including a significant collection of written correspondenc...

Your Body and your Mind: More Tightly Knit than you could ever have Imagined - Part 3 22.02.2023

Send us Fan Mail Robert Rickover continues his discussion with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware, about F. Mathias Alexander's use of the term "psycho-physical." Our previous conversation was about why he used that phrase, and some of the implications of the meaning he assigns to it, and can be seen here: https://youtu.be/b9NxHqCLuX8 In this podca...

Your Mind and your Body - More tightly knit than you could have ever Imagined - Part 2 24.01.2023

Send us Fan Mail Robert Rickover continues his discussion with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware, about F. Mathias Alexander's use of the term "psycho-physical." Their previous conversation was about why he used that phrase, and some of the implications of the meaning he assigns to it and can be seen here: youtu.be/b9NxHqCLuX8 In this video, they...

Your Body and your Mind: More Tightly Knit than you could ever have Imagined - Part 1 24.01.2023

Send us Fan Mail Robert Rickover talks with Imogen Ragone, an Alexander Technique teacher in Wilmington, Delaware, about F. Mathias Alexander's use of the term "psycho-physical" - why he used it, and the implications of the meaning he assigns to it.  This is the podcast that inspired our conversation: bodylearning.buzzsprout.com/382/313810-mind-body-unity-and-the-alexander-technique...

Guided Constructive Rest with Heather Gardner 02.12.2022

Send us Fan Mail This talk was given live during a session at the third annual ATTGP online Alexander Technique Summit in October 2022, and is designed to be listened to while lying down in Constructive Rest. Heather is an Alexander Technique teacher in Philadelphia, PA. ATTGP (Alexander Technique Teachers of Greater Philadelphia) website: alextechgreaterphila.com . Heather’s website: heathergardn...

The implications of the Alexander Technique self-direction "I'm not doing" and it's variants 18.11.2022

Send us Fan Mail Robert Rickover talks with Imogen Ragone about the effectiveness of the Alexander Technique self-direction "I'm not doing" and 2 variants: "I'm not doing anything" and "I'm not doing everything" and what what the implications are for the basic Alexander Technique principle that every aspect of us is connected to every other aspect, and...

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